Chemical reactivity nucleophiles

This kind of chemical reactivity of epoxides is rather general Nucleophiles other than Gng nard reagents react with epoxides and epoxides more elaborate than ethylene oxide may be used All these features of epoxide chemistry will be discussed m Sections 16 11-16 13... 

Isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate are structurally sim liar—both contain a double bond and a pyrophosphate ester unit—but the chemical reactivity expressed by each is different The principal site of reaction m dimethylallyl pyrophosphate is the carbon that bears the pyrophosphate group Pyrophosphate is a reasonably good leaving group m nucleophilic substitution reactions especially when as in dimethylallyl pyrophosphate it is located at an allylic carbon Isopentenyl pyrophosphate on the other hand does not have its leaving group attached to an allylic carbon and is far less reactive than dimethylallyl pyrophosphate toward nucleophilic reagents The principal site of reaction m isopentenyl pyrophosphate is the carbon-carbon double bond which like the double bonds of simple alkenes is reactive toward electrophiles... 

The chemical reactivity of these two substituted ethylenes is in agreement with the ideas encompassed by both the MO and resonance descriptions. Enamines, as amino-substituted alkenes are called, are vety reactive toward electrophilic species, and it is the p carbon that is the site of attack. For example, enamines are protonated on the carbon. Acrolein is an electrophilic alkene, as predicted, and the nucleophile attacks the P carbon. 

For general reviews of nucleophilicity, see R. F. Hudson, in Chemical Reactivity and Reaction Paths, G. Klopman, ed., John Wiley Sons, New York, 1974, Chapter 5 J. M. Harris and S. P. McManus, eds., Nucleophilicity, Advances in Chemistry Series, fio. 215, American Chemical Society, lA asbingtuo, D.C., 1987. 

Frontier Orbitals and Chemical Reactivity. Chemical reactions typically involve movement of electrons from an electron donor (base, nucleophile, reducing agent) to an electron acceptor (acid, electrophile, oxidizing agent). This electron movement between molecules can also be thought of as electron movement between molecular orbitals, and the properties of these electron donor and electron acceptor orbitals provide considerable insight into chemical reactivity. 

All these methods demonstrate that the 2-positions of pyridine, pyrimidine, and other azines are the most electron deficient in the ground state. However, considerably greater chemical reactivity toward nucleophiles at the 4-position is often observed in syntheses and is supported by kinetic studies. Electron deficiency in the ground state is related to the ability to stabilize the pair of electrons donated by the nucleophile in the transition state. However, it is not so directly related that it can explain the relative reactivity at different ring-positions. Certain factors which appear to affect positional selectivity are discussed in Section II, B. 

For a monograph, see Harris, J.M. McManus, S.P. Nucleophilicity American Chemical Society Washington, 1987. For reviews, see Klumpp, G.W. Reactivity in Organic Chemistry Wiley NY, 1982, pp. 145, 181 Hudson, R.F. in Klopman Chemical Reactivity and Reaction Paths Wiley NY, 1974, p. 167. 

The electrophilic character of sulfur dioxide does not only enable addition to reactive nucleophiles, but also to electrons forming sulfur dioxide radical anions which possess the requirements of a captodative" stabilization (equation 83). This electron transfer occurs electrochemically or chemically under Leuckart-Wallach conditions (formic acid/tertiary amine - , by reduction of sulfur dioxide with l-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide or with Rongalite The radical anion behaves as an efficient nucleophile and affords the generation of sulfones with alkyl halides " and Michael-acceptor olefins (equations 84 and 85). 

An affinity label is a molecule that contains a functionality that is chemically reactive and will therefore form a covalent bond with other molecules containing a complementary functionality. Generally, affinity labels contain electrophilic functionalities that form covalent bonds with protein nucleophiles, leading to protein alkylation or protein acylation. In some cases affinity labels interact selectively with specific amino acid side chains, and this feature of the molecule can make them useful reagents for defining the importance of certain amino acid types in enzyme function. For example, iodoacetate and A-ethyl maleimide are two compounds that selectively modify the sulfur atom of cysteine side chains. These compounds can therefore be used to test the functional importance of cysteine residues for an enzyme s activity. This topic is covered in more detail below in Section 8.4. 

The importance of both frontier orbital-controlled and electronic charge-controlled factors in determining chemical reactivity has been recognized (16). These concepts are the key to interpreting two types of reactivity expected for carbene complexes, i.e., reactions with nucleophilic... 

These models refer to reactions with the simplest nucleophile, H, both under neutral conditions and in the protonated form. Chemical reactivity can be strongly altered by catalytic effects acid/base catalysis is of particular importance. We regard the studies on ga phase acidities and on proton affinities discussed in the above sections to bear special significance for quantitative modelling of acid/base catalysis in the future. 

The overall conclusion from the reaction of BP and 6-substituted BP radical cations with nucleophiles of various strengths is that weak nucleophiles display higher selectivity toward the position of highest charge localization. Thus another important factor in the chemical reactivity of radical cations is represented by the strength of the nucleophile. 

The electron-transfer paradigm for chemical reactivity in Scheme 1 (equation 8) provides a unifying mechanistic basis for various bimolecular reactions via the identification of nucleophiles as electron donors and electrophiles as electron acceptors according to Chart 1. Such a reclassification of either a nucleophile/ electrophile, an anion/cation, a base/acid, or a reductant/oxidant pair under a single donor/acceptor rubric offers a number of advantages previously unavailable, foremost of which is the quantitative prediction of reaction rates by invoking the FERET in equation (104). 

In a functional micelle in which the reactive group is fully deprotonated there is a 1 1 relationship between the concentrations of reactive nucleophile and micellar head group in the micellar pseudophase. If under these conditions the substrate is fully micellar bound, (5) or (6) take the very simple form (19). This rate constant, kM, can then be converted into the second-order rate constant, k in M 1s 1, estimating the volume element of reaction, VM, which can be assumed to be that of the micelle or of its Stem layer, and these second-order rate constants can be compared with reaction in water of a chemically similar, non-micellized, nucleophile. 

IV-acyloxy-iV-alkoxyamides, biological activity, 97-115 anticancer activity of, 115 mutagenicity of, in Ames Salmonella/ microsome assay, 97-115 IV-acyloxy-iV-alkoxyamides, chemical reactivity, 59-96 factors contributing, 59-60 nucleophilic substitution reactions, see Nucleophilic substitution reactions solvolysis studies, see Solvolysis... 

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